All three finalists for the inspector general job are from out of state. As they were interviewed Wednesday by the Ethics and Compliance Commission, the chairman, Carroll Suggs, gave each a pair of host gifts: a New Orleans visitors guide and a Zulu coconut.

And it turns out that one of the reference letters for candidate David McClintock, Baltimore's inspector general, came from an FBI agent who played a leading role in Wrinkled Robe. That's Pat Bohrer, who now heads one of the two public corruption units in the bureau's Baltimore field office.

Wrinkled Robe sent two Jefferson Parish judges to prison. Twelve more defendants pleaded guilty, and two more judges lost their jobs without facing criminal charges.